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Experience Quotes
"He had never before felt so self-consciously young, nor experienced such appetite, such impatience for the story to begin."
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"She had understood before she had ever dreamed of a city such as this, where every texture, every color, leapt out at you, where every fragrance was a drug, and the air itself was something alive and breathing."
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"We knew we did not want to record at Impulse Studios again, after the experience of recording in a 'real' studio in London for the Radio One session we did."
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"It is a dangerous thing to substitute reading or writing for living. Live first, then write."
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"Travel is the best teacher. The only way to an open mind is by taking a plane out into the open world."
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"If one wanted to depict the whole thing graphically, every episode, with its climax, would require a three-dimensional, or, rather, no model: every experience is unrepeatable. What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space."
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"All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience."
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"I've shepherded a good many people through their lives, I've baptized babies by the hundred, and all that time I have felt as though a great part of life was closed to me. Your mother says I was like Abraham. But I had no old wife and no promise of a child. I was just getting by on books and baseball and fried-egg sandwiches."
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"Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality."
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"Things hit a limit, though, when I was set upon by a pickpocket in a baker's shop. I didn't notice that I was being set upon by a pickpocket, which I am glad of, because I like to work only with professionals."
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"For if we think of this existence of the individual as a larger or smaller room, it becomes clear that most people get to know only one corner of their room, a window seat, a strip of floor which they pace up and down."
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"I don't think I even knew how big we were at the time. It was mad. I gained a lot through East 17 and I'm grateful for being able to have that experience."
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"Tonight is going to be a big night, like any other night, because certain 10 million Americans will not be able to sleep well tonight."
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"Experience kills out ur weaknesses."
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"Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description."
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"Beyond these moments, she could hardly count the fumbling ministrations of boys in high school who, even to her senior prom, never went beyond sticky pleasantries. With one exception, it was just a sort of half-clothed handshake for bragging rights, none hers."
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"The distance is great from the firm belief to the realization from concrete experience."
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"It's very intense to be in front of a live audience. It's just an amazing experience. It's dangerous. Everything out there is heightened. The bad stuff is extra-worse. The silences are extra-silent. The good stuff is amazing. It's electric when you walk out there. For 90 minutes, you're on this other planet."
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"Would to Heaven we had never approached them at all, but had run back at top speed out of that blasphemous tunnel with the greasily smooth floors and the degenerate murals aping and mocking the things they had superseded-run back, before we had seen what we did see, and before our minds were burned with something which will never let us breathe easily again!"
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"It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it."
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"My experience with Buffalo Springfield was that they did not rehearse."
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"I would have preferred someone else to have been in charge of rescuing this story, but once again life has taught me that my role is to be a witness, not the leading actor."
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"Because...Beacause it's so good, and there's only one chance to read a book for the first time, and I want it to last. That experience. I'd finish it in a day otherwise, and that'd be like...like eating a carton of ice cream in one sitting. Too much richness over too quickly. This way, I can draw it out. Make the book last longer. Savor it. I have to since they don't come out that often."
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"I'm afraid concerts spoil people for everyday life."
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"Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?"
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"That peace which is within us, we must experience it. And if we are searching for peace outside we will never find the peace within."
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"What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?"
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"Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places."
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"When something happens to you that is beyond words, life is happening to you. When the Ultimate is happening to you, you are beyond words."
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"It is not how long the music last but how much we enjoy."
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"Conviction without experience makes for harshness."
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"You have not lived until you have fled a city in a country where you do not speak the language in the middle of the night."
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"But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience."
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"To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exlcude yourself from the true enjoyment of it."
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"I picked up a snake once. In Italy.""Why did you do that?""For a bet.""Was it poisonous?""We didn't know. That was the point of the bet.""Did it bite you?""Of course.""Why of course?""It wouldn't be much of a story, would it? If I'd put it down unharmed, and away it slid?"
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"Experience is by industry achiev'd,And perfected by the swift course of time."
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"Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment."
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"I have found little that is "good" about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think."
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"Experience gives the greatest lessons of life."
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"It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it."
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"Experience is bitter. But it fruits is sweet like honey."
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"Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant."
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"I had a fair idea how it felt to get spanked with a large flat surface, and my rump clenched in sympathy."
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"There is nothing I like better than conversing with aged men. For I regard them as travelers who have gone a journey which I too may have to go, and of whom I ought to inquire whether the way is smooth and easy or rugged and difficult. Is life harder toward the end, or what report do you give it?"
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"Every memory becomes a golden treasure to us when we have lived our lives with tragedy and triumphs, sadness and happiness."
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"But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy."
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"If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience."
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"You cannot surprise an individual more than twice with the same marvel."
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"War and marriage and childbirth had passed over her without touching any deep chord within her and she was unchanged."
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"Happiness and Unhappiness are not things that just happen to you, they are a choice. They are a perspective. Smile, and think about that for a moment. Now smile some more. Not that hard is it?"
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